Arabic edit

Root
ش ح ط (š-ḥ-ṭ)

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

شَحّاطَة (šaḥḥāṭaf (plural شَحَّاطَات (šaḥḥāṭāt))

  1. match (wherewith fire is started)
  2. a kind of shoe, fit for scuffing the ground, for women, flip-flop

Declension edit

References edit

  • شحاطة” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “شحاطة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 732
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “شحاطة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 636

South Levantine Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic شَحّاطَة (šaḥḥāṭa).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ʃaħ.ħaː.tˤa/, [ʃaħˈħɑː.tˤɑ]
  • (file)

Noun edit

شحّاطة (šaḥḥāṭaf

  1. slippers
    Synonyms: بابوج (bābūj), صرماية (ṣurmāye)